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Because cord blood present within a newborn’s umbilical is rich with stem cells, it can be collected and stored for future medical use.
SINGAPORE, 3 January 2018 – Cordlife Group Limited (“Cordlife”, and together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”) has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire full control of HealthBaby Biotech (Hong Kong) Co., Limited (“HealthBaby Hong Kong”), in a move that will expand its presence in the private cord blood banking industry in Hong Kong and Macau. [Read more…]
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 18, 2017 — Eone-Diagnomics Genome Center (EDGC), a Korean genetic analysis company, said today it will expand its business into East Asian market with Asia’s largest network of cord blood and cord lining banking service provider “Cordlife” as the company aims to expand its geographical presence in Asian genome market.
The company expects Cordlife, who operates its cord blood and cord lining banking business in numbers of Asian countries as a market leader, to be the best possible partner while the company is taking bold steps to grow in both scale and scope in Asian market.
EDGC will initially begin to service its Non-Invasive Prenatal Test (NIPT), named “Gen Screen,” to both the Philippines and Indonesia through Cordlife’s sales network within each country.
In particular, Indonesia has the second highest birth rate in the world after China. Making a move into such a country, the company is expected to see a definite steep growth in sales. [Read more…]
– Data show rapid and durable engraftment with MGTA-456, an expanded cord blood stem cell product, in all 18 patients with hematologic malignancies across all conditioning regimens tested –
– MGTA-456 achieves clinical benefits of cord blood transplant –
– Clinically validated process to expand the numbers of CD34+ cells by >300 fold in single cord blood units significantly increases probability of identifying better HLA-matched stem cell donors for patients
December 11, 2017, CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Magenta Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing therapeutics to improve and extend the use of curative bone marrow transplant for more patients, today reported Phase 2 clinical data from its MGTA-456 hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) expansion program at the 59th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) in Atlanta, Ga. MGTA-456 is a single umbilical cord blood unit expanded with an aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) antagonist. It is currently being studied in adult and pediatric patients with hematologic malignancies.
To understand the benefits of cord blood vs. bone marrow vs. peripheral blood, it is important to understand the use of each within HSCT. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is the transplantation of multipotent hematopoietic stem cells derived from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood. It is performed for patients with cancers of the blood or bone marrow, such as leukemia and multiple myeloma, making it the leading type of cell therapy performed worldwide. [Read more…]
December 5 2017, Stevenage, UK–Plasticell, a developer of innovative stem cell technologies and cell therapies, today announced it will collaborate with Anthony Nolan, a leading research organisation dedicated to saving the lives of people with blood cancers, to progress clinical development of Plasticell’s ex vivo expanded cord-blood derived hematopoietic stem cell product.
Allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a curative therapy for patients with life-threating haematological disorders and the most successful cell replacement therapy developed to date with over 40,000 transplantations performed per year worldwide. Cord blood (CB) is an ideal starting point for allogeneic HSCT as it can be collected and banked without compromising the donor and is more easily matched to recipients relative to bone marrow–derived material. However, the limited number of stem cells available in a single cord unit limit their use to paediatric patients and can cause delayed engraftment. [Read more…]
